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# North Korea threatens more attacks on South
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## North Korea threatened further attacks against the South on Thursday as
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tensions mounted on the Korean peninsular, with South Korea's government
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facing angry calls at home to strike back at the rogue regime of Kim Jong-il.
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![North Korea threatens more attacks on South][1]
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Image 1 of 3
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North Korean troops standing to attention in Pyongyang Photo: AFP/Getty Images
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![A US aircraft carrier is to deploy to the Yellow Sea off the coast of South
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Korea after the two countries agreed to conduct further war games in a show
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force against North Korea][2]
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Image 1 of 3
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North Korean soldiers watch from a boat as they patrol on the Yalu River, the
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China-North Korea border river, near North Korea's town of Sinuiju Photo: AP
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![North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of shells at a South Korean border
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island, setting buildings ablaze and injuring several people, Seoul officials
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and media reports said ][3]
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Image 1 of 3
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North Korea fired dozens of shells at a South Korean border island Photo:
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GETTY IMAGES
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By Peter Foster in Beijing 7:10AM GMT 25 Nov 2010
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"North Korea will wage second and even third rounds of attacks without any
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hesitation, if warmongers in South Korea make reckless military provocations
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again," the North's official KCNA news agency said, quoting the country's
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military.
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The threat of further action two days after the North's artillery batteries
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bombarded a South Korean island, killing four people and destroying 22 houses,
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in an act that was condemned around the world.
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Although winning international plaudits for his calls for restraint over the
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attack, South Korea's president Lee Myung-bak, has been berated at home by
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South Korea's media and even some members of his ruling party.
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"Let me say a word about those bastards at the Blue House who advised the
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president to say the situation should be managed to avoid a full-blown war,"
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the Korea Joongang Daily quoted ruling party law-maker Hong Sa-duk as saying.
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"They must all be fired for advising the president to have such a weak
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response."
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Although the South has grown somewhat inured to provocations from the North -
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last March a South Korean warship the Cheonan was sunk with the loss of 46
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lives in an apparent North Korean torpedo attack - an attack on South Korea's
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own territory has stirred stronger feelings.
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## Related Articles
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* [South Korean defence minister quits][4]
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25 Nov 2010
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* [US 'bringing Korean peninsula to brink of war'][5]
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26 Nov 2010
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* [US urges China to act over North Korea][6]
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25 Nov 2010
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* [North Korea attack: US and South Korea prepare war games in Yellow
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Sea][7]
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* [North Korea attacks South][8]
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* [Obama pledges to defend US ally South Korea][9]
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24 Nov 2010
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Mr Lee's government, which has threatened missile-strikes if North Korea
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attacks again, responded to public pressure by announcing it would strengthen
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the garrisons on five outlying islands near its border with the North.
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As the outcry against the North grew in Seoul, the international divisions
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between the US and China over how to handle the North Korean crisis showed no
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signs of abating.
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Washington has already announced the deployment of a nuclear-powered carrier
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battle-group to the Yellow Sea for joint exercises with South Korea this
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weekend in a show of force that has enraged Pyongyang and defied Beijing's
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calls for a swift return to the negotiating table.
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China's Premier Wen Jiabao, on a trip to Russia, again called for a resumption
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of the Six Party disarmament talks, a move that the US and its allies have
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said is impossible until North Korea ceases its belligerence and makes serious
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entreaties over nuclear disarmament.
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"China is firmly committed to maintaining the peace and stability of the
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Korean peninsula and opposes any provocative military acts," Mr Wen said,
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without making clear whether he was referring to the North Korean bombardment,
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the US carrier deployment or South Korea war games earlier in the week that
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the North said had provoked their attack - or all three.
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The US has made no secret that it wants China, as the North's only
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international ally, to use its economic and political clout to force Pyongyang
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to curb the excesses of the regime of the ailing Kim Jong-il.
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The North is currently in the middle of a leadership transition that will hand
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power to his youngest son, the inexperienced 26-year-old Kim Jong-un who,
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according to speculation in South Korea, may have personally ordered the
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bombardment to bolster his standing having recently been appointed as a major-
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general.
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Admiral Mike Mullen, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Washington was
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working with allies on ways to respond to the attack, adding: "It's very
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important for China to lead."
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Analysts however remain sceptical that China, which argues that the US stance
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risks further destabilizing North Korea, will diverge significantly from its
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current policies towards Pyongyang.
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Peter Beck, a North Korea expert with the US think-tank the Council on Foreign
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Relations, said: "In the wake of the Cheonan sinking, Beijing showed us that
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they are more than willing to put up with Pyongyang's worst behaviour
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"Given that this incident brings us closer to the brink of war than the
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Cheonan, Beijing might conclude that enough is enough and quietly put their
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foot down, but I am not holding my breath."
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